Episode
The Decentralized Future of Private AI with Illia Polosukhin - #749
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) · Sep 30, 2025 · 1 h 05 min
In this episode, Illia Polosukhin, a co-author of the seminal "Attention Is All You Need" paper and co-founder of Near AI, joins us to discuss his vision for building private, decentralized, and user-owned AI. Illia shares his unique journey from developing the Transformer architecture at Google to building the NEAR Protocol blockchain to solve global payment challenges, and now applying those…